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[–] Successful_Try543@feddit.org 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Last time I've counted them, it was 5: Nominative, Genitive, Dative, Akkusative and Ablative. Do you also count Locative and Vocative?

[–] teft@piefed.social 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I was counting locative as one of the main 6.

[–] Successful_Try543@feddit.org 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Yet, Locative and Vocative apply only to places and names, not to nouns in general.

[–] teft@piefed.social 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Yes, they are still grammatical cases.

[–] Successful_Try543@feddit.org 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

That depends on who you ask.

Some linguists, such as Albert Thumb, argue that the vocative form is not a case but a special form of nouns not belonging to any case, as vocative expressions are not related syntactically to other words in sentences. Pronouns usually lack vocative forms.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vocative_case

It seems in English speaking countries it is treated like a case, in Germany it isn't.

[–] teft@piefed.social 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I’m just shitposting, amigo. I wouldn’t worry too much about it.

The point stands that most english speakers would be confused by grammatical case since english doesn’t have that feature.

[–] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

English pronouns still have case

[–] teft@piefed.social 1 points 6 months ago

Yes, we do. Just not in the same way that latin does. Ours is only for pronouns whereas they declined every noun in crazy ways.